Contact
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jens Kober
Institute for Artificial Intelligence
University of Stuttgart
Universitätsstraße 32
70569 Stuttgart, Germany
🖂 jens.kober (at) ki.uni-stuttgart.de
🕿 +49 711 685 88102
Office: 315a
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jens-kober/
Research interests
Robotics, Motor Skill Learning, Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Imitation Learning, Deep Learning, Interactive Learning
News
- 1 accepted conference paper:
. Increasing the blade tip-to-tower clearance using individual pitch control. In Torque, 2026. Accepted.
- 1 new preprint:
. Evaluating randomized smoothing as a defense against adversarial attacks in trajectory prediction. arXiv:2603.10821 [cs.LG], 2026. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi] [code]
- Jens Kober started a new position as full professor at University of Stuttgart with a joint appointment at Fraunhofer IPA.
- 1 accepted journal paper:
. MUKCa: Accurate and Affordable Cobot Calibration Without External Measurement Devices. Communications Engineering, 2026. accepted.
- 1 new preprint:
. TacLight: A Six-Axis Soft Optical Tactile Sensor for Physical and Virtual Interaction. PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square, 2026. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
- 2 accepted conference papers:
. LLM-Guided Task- and Affordance-Level Exploration in Reinforcement Learning. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026. Accepted. [bibtex] [pdf] [webpage] [code] [video]
. Studying the Effect of Explicit Interaction Representations on Learning Scene-Level Distributions of Human Trajectories. In IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), 2026. Accepted. [bibtex] [pdf] [code] [data]
- 1 accepted journal paper:
. Sequentially Teaching Sequential Tasks (ST)2: Teaching Robots Long-Horizon Manipulation Skills. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, ():2–13, 2026. Early Access. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
- 2 new preprints:
. Controllable Generative Trajectory Prediction via Weak Preference Alignment. arXiv:2510.10731 [cs.RO], 2025. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
. STEP: Structured Training and Evaluation Platform for benchmarking trajectory prediction models. arXiv:2509.14801 [cs.LG], 2025. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi] [code]
- 4 accepted journal papers:
. Human-Interactive Robot Learning: Definition, Challenges, and Recommendations. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 15(2):1–31, 2026. Article 46. [bibtex] [file] [doi]
. Scalable Task Planning via Large Language Models and Structured World Representations. Advanced Robotics Research, :e202500002, 2025. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi] [video]
. ILeSiA: Interactive Learning of Situational Awareness from Camera Input. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 10(10):10490–10497, 2025. [bibtex] [pdf] [webpage] [doi] [code] [video]
. ASkDAgger: Active Skill-level Data Aggregation for Interactive Imitation Learning. Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2025. [bibtex] [pdf] [url] [webpage] [code] [video]
- 2 accepted conference papers:
. PARTNR: Pick and place Ambiguity Resolving by Trustworthy iNteractive leaRning. In 30th International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT), pp. 1–6, 2025. [bibtex] [pdf] [webpage] [doi] [video]
. Explosive Jumping with Rigid and Articulated Soft Quadrupeds via Example Guided Reinforcement Learning. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS), pp. 18903–18910, 2025. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi] [video]
- 1 accepted journal paper:
. Amsterdam Self-Efficacy Scale for Tooth Removal (ASES-TR). European Journal of Dental Education, 2025. Early View. [bibtex] [file] [doi]